Farm & Station

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 29 August 1939, Page 15

Farm & Station

By “The Gleaner.”

STUD STOCK DEALS

VALUABLE EXPORTS

ENGLAND, U.S.A., AFRICA

GISBORNE TO TASMANIA

Some valuable stud stock deals lave been made in New Zealand reently, and exports have been made to seveial countries, including England, U.S.A. and South Africa, while a Hereford! bull has been shipped rom Gisborne to Tasmania.

Although. New Zealand is the home of Corriedale sheep and has been supplying sheep of this breed to practically every sheep-breeding country in the world, orders from the United States and Great Britain are not frequent occurrences. This year the stud stock department of Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Company, Limited, has been favoured with repeat orders from both councries.

To Ohio, in the United Slates, has been dispatched what is regarded by 'Mr. James Little, of the “Hui Hui” Stud, Hawarden, as one of the best rams he has bred. This sheep changed hands at a very high figure. From the Bushey Park Stud of the late Mr. J A. Johnstone was secured the ram for England. Cattle For Tasmania

Tasmania, which in the past has drawn on New Zealand for high quality stud sheep, is now securing both cattle and! pigs from the Dominion. Following on the visit of Mr. Allan Stewart, managing director of the Allan Stewart Proprietary Company and also secretary of every breed society in Tasmania, Messrs. Wright. Stephenson and Company, Limited, have received orders for Romney Marsh, Southdown and Border Leicester sheep. More recently orders have been executed for Berkshire and Tamworth pigs. Last week a Polled Hereford bull from the Wilencote Stud of Mr. F. E. Humphreys, Ngatapa, was sent forward. When in New Zealand, Mr. Stewart was very much impressed with the Ayrshire cattle of Mr. J. G. Donald, Featherston. Unfortunately the I bull which Mr. Stewart favoured was sold by Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Company, to a South Island client at a three-figure price. His next selection has just gone forward to a leading Tasmanian breeder at a price bordering on three figures also. Sheep For South Africa,

South Africa, once a country in which the Merino was practically .the only breed of sheep kept, has been turning it’s attention more ana more to sheep of a dual purpose type. Numbers of sheep have been secured from Australia, South Australia having forwarded over one thousand rams of the various British breeds in the past two years. These have been mainly of the Dorset Horn, Southdown, Romney Marsh and Border Leicester breeds. The Corriedale, ■which fs rapidly gaining favour, is being drawn largely from New Zealand, and Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and; Company advise the shipment of a further five rams from Bushey Park Stud of the late Mr. J. A. Johnstone to Durban.

Sheep From England

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, advise that the firm’s New Zealand stud stock department, has purchased the top-price Southdown ram at the Aldc-nham dispersal sale in England. Competition was very keen on this ram up to 100 guineas and after that price the competition was between Captain Barrett, acting on behalf of the Luton Hoo estate, and Mr. Walter Langmead, on behalf of Messrs. Dalgety and Company. This sheep was purchased for Mr. W. O’Malley, Ikamatua, Greymouth. Messrs. Dalgety and Company have been informed from their London office that they are shipping to New Zealand for the order of Mr. W. G. Booth, Feilding, Messrs. John Langmead and Son’s third-prize shearling Southdown ram of the Royal Show. Romneys For New South Wales

A recent visitor to New Zealand was Mr. C. Henderson, Upper WanIngong, Holbrook, New South Wales, who is establishing a first-class (lock of Romney Marsh sheep in his district. Messrs. Dalgety and Company. Limited, have sold to him for delivery early next year two stud rams from Mr. R. W. Matthews, Waiorongomai, while 50 shearling ewes have gone from each of the following: Mr. H. B. Johnston, Karrrano, Feilding; Mr. Geo. Allen. Tipua, Masterton; Mr. J. E. Hewitt, Mangamaire; Messrs. A. and J. Gray, Masterton.